Film Reviews

How did such a turkey ever escape the studio lot?

A pyrotechnic pinwheel of a personal comedy.

Reese Witherspoon is the angry, wounded soul of Wild. She commands the screen throughout her heroine's 1,100-mile journey of self-discovery and self-repair, on foot and mostly alone, from the Mojave desert to northern Oregon along the Pacific Crest Trail.

The Imitation Game, with Benedict Cumberbatch in full cry, summons up a life that changed modern history.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 is a rare bird in its genre, an action adventure with an interesting mind and a resonant spirit.

Foxcatcher is an enthralling enigma of a movie.

Joe Morgenstern reviews Christopher Nolan's 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum...

Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler is a dark dream of a thriller.

Rather than let nuance intrude, Gone Girl doubles down on perversity, and its stars follow suit.

Two luminaries of Saturday Night Live are reunited in The Skeleton Twins — Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader. It’s hard to say if they give wonderful comic performances with a tragic dimension, or wonderful dramatic performances with a comic dimension.

Joe Morgenstern reviews the new Pixar short Lava, as well as Birdman, Leviathan, and Mr. Turner from the Telluride Film Festival.

Joe Morgenstern reviews the new Chloe Grace Moretz film If I Stay, and the new comedy The Trip to Italy from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.

For all of its gastronomic and cultural crosscurrents, The Hundred-Foot Journey boils down to comfort food.

Get On Up is about the transformative power of performance. James Brown was a performer of legendary gifts, immeasurable influence and almost infinitely renewable energy.

Lucy doesn't keep track of its own logic, but it's gleefully bold, often funny, surprisingly concise, and 100% entertaining.